The brand new Magic: The Gathering Brothers Struggle growth is correct across the nook, which suggests new Commander Precons!
Not lengthy has handed because the launch of Magic: The Gathering’s newest growth, Dominaria United and the primary Universes Past the title, Warhammer 40k; the Brothers’ Struggle is upon us! On this growth, legendary siblings Urza and Mishra will conflict once more – so it’s solely pure that they would be the stars of the Commander Preconstructed Decks of this growth. The face Commanders, Urza, Chief Artificer and Mishra, Eminent One, had been spoiled a number of weeks in the past.
Urza’s Iron Alliance
The brand new Urza card will probably be a 3WUB, so 6 total mana for a 4/5 Human Artificer creature. Whereas the stats usually are not distinctive, his talents are. Urza has Affinity for artifact creatures, which suggests he prices one generic much less for every artifact creature beneath your management, so his mana price will often be only a White, a Blue and a Black, as his deck, Urza’s Iron Alliance, depends closely on artifact creatures. He additionally provides artifact creatures menace, and at the start of your finish step, he creates a 0/0 colorless Assemble, which will get +1/+1 for every artifact beneath your management.
The backup Commander included within the deck is Tawnos, Solemn Survivor. He’s rather less expensive at 1U for a 1/3 Human Artificer. He has 2 faucet talents: first, he can create a token that’s a duplicate of as much as one goal artifact creature beneath your management for two generic mana – however it’s a must to mill 2 playing cards. For 1WUB, you may sacrifice two artifact tokens and exile an artifact or creature card out of your graveyard. Should you do, you create a token copy of the exiled card, besides it turns into an artifact as well as of it’s different sorts. He appears to be an fascinating Commander, however for the deck’s gameplan, Urza needs to be the stronger of the 2.
The Iron Alliance boast an enormous quantity of creatures, coming with 36 within the Precon. From these, solely 14 usually are not artifact creatures, however the majority of these playing cards work together with artifacts, equivalent to Sai, Grasp Thoptherist, who creates a 1/1 flying Thopter with each spell you forged. The deck additionally has 11 instants and sorceries, 13 common artifacts, 3 enchantments and 36 lands with some notable reprints like Preordain, Thopter Spy Community, Thought Vessel, Liquimetal Torque and Skullclamp. The deck has 9 new playing cards, one in every of which is Tawnos himself. The opposite playing cards are Sanwell, Avenger Ace; Scholar of New Horizons; March of Progress; Wire Surgeons; Wreck Hunter; Hexavus; Kayla’s Music Field and Thopter Store. Whereas all the brand new playing cards are nice, one of the best are March of Progress, which helps you to copy all your artifacts, and Kayla’s Music Field, which let’s you retailer your playing cards to play them on a later flip.
Mishra’s Burnished Banner
On the opposite facet of the struggle, Mishra, Urza’s brother, rallies his military. The second commander deck of the 2 is a Grixis artifact deck, relying extra on common artifacts, relatively than artifact creatures. The brand new Mishra card, Eminent One, is a 2UBR Human Artificer with 5 energy and 4 toughness. He has one prolonged potential: at the start of fight in your flip, you may create a token that’s a duplicate of a noncreature artifact you management, besides it’s known as Mishra’s Warform, and it’s a 4/4 Assemble artifact Creature together with its different sorts. It beneficial properties haste, however you will need to sacrifice it on the following step.
The backup Commander is a personality whose debut has been lengthy awaited: it’s Ashnod the Uncaring! She additionally prices 2UBR, and is a 1/4 with Deathtouch. She additionally doubles your artifacts’ non-mana talents on the situation that you may solely double talents which can be activated by sacrificing a number of permanents. You may also select new targets for the copy. She additionally has a guidelines textual content on the finish of her potential which states that sacrificing an artifact for mana to activate a capability doesn’t rely, to get rid of the issue of Treasures – but when it’s a must to sacrifice an artifacts to activate a capability, you may most undoubtedly use a treasure for that.
The Burnished Banner has a reasonably completely different composition from the Iron Alliance. It accommodates 21 creatures, 11 instants and sorceries, 30 artifacts and 37 lands. It’s no marvel that the artifacts are on the heavier facet within the Precon, as each Mishra’s and Ashnod’s potential is about doubling artifacts, both as a 4/4 creature, or simply doubling it’s activated or triggered potential. Whereas there are some good staples to repeat, equivalent to Wayfarer’s Bauble, some Signets, Nihil Spellbomb, Idol of Oblivion and most notably Cursed Mirror, it has some nice new playing cards as properly. Aside from Ashnod the Uncaring, the brand new playing cards are Glint Raker, Terisiare’s Devastation; Blast-Furnace Hellkite; Farid, Enterprising Salvager; Machine God’s Effigy; Scavenged Brawler; Smelting Vat and Wonrdous Crucible.
Probably the most fascinating card is the Machine God’s Effigy, which may enter the battlefield as a duplicate of any creature, besides it’s an artifact that may faucet for a Blue mana. Smelting Vat works nice with Ashnod, however Mishra could make wonders with it as properly, with the ability to use the power twice with the Warform. Whereas Ashnod’s potential appears to synergize higher with the Precon, Mishra appears extra universally helpful, which is unquestionably an essential factor when Preconstructed Decks.
Whereas 9 new playing cards in each decks appear a bit low, this set is a throwback to the early days of magic, so the variety of reprints isn’t any shock. Due to the retro facet, all of the playing cards in these decks are Previous Bordered, wanting like the primary playing cards of Magic: The Gathering.
Catch the most recent MTG growth, Brothers Struggle, on the 18th of November, and get the brand new Precons at your native video games retailer!
